School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

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1. Hurling and Footballing (continued)

   

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   Lough first, won the game.

   

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2. Our Holy Wells

   

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   5-10-1938 Our Holy Wells There is only one holy well in the school district. It is in Cloonpatrick. People still visit it. Every year on the last Sunday of July the people from all around go there on a pilgrimage. They say prayers and perform the Stations of the Cross. Invalids generally drink the water and bathe in it. it is usually when they are immersed in the water that they are cured. Relics are often left at the well. The relics that are left are:- crutches, sticks, bandages or whatever an invalid would be wearing. Offerings of money or

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Fhíneachtaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mrs Finerty

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   43

   Address

   Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon